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Norway

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Searching for god smak (“good taste”)

I’m finishing up a week of traveling the fjords and roads of Norway, trying to scope out the cheese scene in this country better known for salmon and sweaters. One of the first things I discovered on my Scandinavian beat is that the average Norwegian refers to her/his cheese by color: they have their white cheese, their yellow cheese, some blue cheese, and plenty of brown cheese.  Color indicts familiar supermarket cheese. They know, for instance, what to expect from a slice of white cheese.

Breakfast always includes sliced "yellow, white, and brown" cheese
The Norwegian cheese plate at Jacobs restaurant in Bergen had a blue, an aged goat cheese, mold-ripened lovelies and an alpine